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Things You Don't See Anymore Part 2

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#221
rtslinger said:
I gotcha big ben 10-4

CB radios

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Motrac ≠ CB. Probably off a 1970s low band or high band VHF mobile, the guts were a large box in the trunk. Great radios, built like a brick. You'd key up and the car headlights would dim.
 
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Back in the day, my dad was into CBs big time. We had a private telephone pole "tower" complete with a motorized directional antenna array. He wanted his base station to be able to reach out to his car CB all the way to work which was a considerable distance away. To accomplish this, we sometimes used illegal signal amplifiers to boost the output wattage. This was in the pre-cable TV days when everyone was using some sort of antenna to receive TV programming. Boy, that base station could put a serious hurting on the neighborhood TVs. That signal amplifier was all flaming vacuum tubes, baby, and it would dim the lights when you hit that toggle switch.
My dad's been dead a couple of years now. Thanks for sparking that memory.
 
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Unprofessional said:
Back in the day, my dad was into CBs big time. We had a private telephone pole "tower" complete with a motorized directional antenna array. He wanted his base station to be able to reach out to his car CB all the way to work which was a considerable distance away. To accomplish this, we sometimes used illegal signal amplifiers to boost the output wattage. This was in the pre-cable TV days when everyone was using some sort of antenna to receive TV programming. Boy, that base station could put a serious hurting on the neighborhood TVs. That signal amplifier was all flaming vacuum tubes, baby, and it would dim the lights when you hit that toggle switch.
My dad's been dead a couple of years now. Thanks for sparking that memory.
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Thanks for sparking THAT memory! Power boosters, power mics, roof antenneas, linear amplifiers... My brother had all that stuff too. He'd key the mic and broadcast over every TV and radio on the block.
 
#229
Musiclogic said:
Living wages? LMFAO. The term Living wage is relatively new, and seemingly something for the PC panderers.

When I was developing my work skills in jr High, High School and through my undergraduate years, we called it "Making a living". This is what you did by developing useable skills and working your way up in a job. You didn't just get some "immediate wage level" because this is what people feel they need to live comfortably. You worked and struggled to make ends meet so you could achieve a better wage through merit and hard work.

Things you don't see anymore?

Work ethic and ambition.
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How about compassion, understanding, and open minds?

Oh wait, I don't think that last one fits the thread...

While the term is "relatively new", the concept is not. The effort that you put in to achieve what you did presupposes a belief in that concept...otherwise, I doubt you would have bothered.
 
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I think people in minimum wage jobs generally overvalue their contribution to the world. A friend of mine used to be a very skilled PC and network technician. In the mid/late 90s, he had a job doing that for about $19 an hour...pretty respectable for the time and place. But then he got arrested on a DUI charge while driving between office locations. He lost his job of course. Eventually, he got a job making Tacos at Taco Bell and complained loudly that his time was worth more than what he was getting paid and he couldn't live on it.

I told him that, no, his time was not worth more than that while he was making Tacos. If he had been doing what he was educated for, his time would definitely have been worth more. But he wasn't. He was stupid and got himself fired. He was right that he wasn't making enough to live, but why should he? He was not doing a job that was worth that much.

I agree that work ethic is lacking these days. It's not extinct, but it's endangered.
 
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Joe Nerve said:
I wasn't into cb radios, but both my brothers were. I remember how much one of the them wanted, and finally got the highly esteemed d104 lolipop.

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Gave him the ability to step all over a lot of the neghborood guys.
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Ha! My dad had one of those...and had the "Moon-Raker" antenna on top of the house too! Ah...the 70's. :p

Now, I'm just recollecting some other things from that era, and IIRC, there was some kind of signal strength antenna that people had for their cars to find out where the CB Trollers lived...
 
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OK. for weeks I've been looking for an image of this, but I give up. I'll try to describe it and please let me know if this still exists or not. At least in my country, it disappeared so many years ago and I clearly remember it:

Back in the seventies, yogurt and kumis were sold in cardboard boxes that resembled a house. To drink its contents, you should separate one side of the house's roof, which consisted of two cardboard strips glued together. The crude drawing below tries to represent what I'm talking about.

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Hopefully I was clear enough. Do you know what I'm talking about? Can you find a real image of this?
 
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